unviable

Examples

• All

• These people will suffer from a grave disadvantage if their linguistic community becomes unviable.

  Academic text (1999)

• Seed shortages, rising fuel prices, shrinking credit, inflation, and falling shrimp prices combined to make their intensive farms economically unviable.

  Academic text (1996)

• Some of them will eventually become economically unviable, even if they can let go of the Empire to save the nation.

  Blog text (10)

• The other succeeded as well, but a couple of weeks later it closed due to being unviable.

  Blog text (34)

• Currently in China, the workers are replaced by robots and machines when their wage demands make them economically unviable.

  Blog text (9)

• The fishing camps that had provided opportunities for commercial fishing and the harvesting and processing of an array of traditional foods became unviable.

  Academic text (2007)

• The Irish nationalists who support this proposal believe that the Northern Ireland that emerges from any partition would be economically unviable and financially too expensive for London to maintain.

  Academic text (1995)

• The project's funding was withdrawn because it was deemed unviable in the current economic climate.

• After careful analysis, the team concluded that continuing with the plan would be unviable and decided to pivot to a new strategy.

• Many startups fail because they pursue models that are ultimately unviable without proper market demand.

Synonyms

U

unsustainable

vsunviable

45 5.0

Not able to continue in the same way for a long time

adds that the issue is an actual inability to succeed or survive

U

unattainable

vsunviable

18 6.3

Not possible to get or reach

applies to failing to survive or continue rather than only unreachable goals

U

unfeasible

vsunviable

4 6.8

Not possible to do or make work

refers instead to an overall failure to survive or function successfully

U

unachievable

vsunviable

3 6.3

Not possible to do or reach

concerns broader failure to survive or operate effectively rather than mere reachability

I

infeasible

vsunviable

2 7.2

Not possible to do or make happen

focuses on inability to continue, survive, or succeed rather than task impossibility

N

nonviable

vsunviable

1 7.8

Not able to live, develop, or succeed

has identical meaning but differs in wording or form

I

inviable

vsunviable

1 8.2

Not able to continue or be successful

expresses the same failure to continue or succeed overall

U

unfulfillable

vsunviable

1 8.7

Impossible to do or make happen

covers general inability to continue, survive, or succeed beyond single duties

N

nonsustainable

vsunviable

7.2

Cannot continue without using up resources or causing harm

focuses more on failing to survive, succeed, or continue effectively

U

unpropitious

vsunviable

9.3

Not likely to succeed or have a good result

states an actual inability to succeed, survive, or continue effectively

Antonyms

V

viable

177 5.4

Possible to do successfully with available resources

F

feasible

88 4.9

Possible to do or make happen

How Viable

thriving

6 3.8

successful

∞ 1.6

viable

177 5.4

unviable

2 6.4

impossible

∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

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Etymology